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up on the Web quickly and easily. Templates and Web portfolio space are
available for free, but the persuasion factors that are negatively affected are too
vital to allow the appearance of the author to tolerate it — maybe. Who wants
pop up windows jumping out every few minutes on their Web portfolio — and
have no control over it? This type of annoying feature found on free or very
cheap commercial Web portfolio sites does not persuade the user that a
connection should be made in a work for hire situation or any situation. The
speed and efficiency that one can develop and publish a Web portfolio
becomes a critical skill in the knowledge age. So as the knowledge worker
evolves and his or her skills flourish, so will the Web portfolio and the
communities that will evolve based on shared interests. In the future, groups of
Web portfolios will be seen within varying contexts. But just the fact that you
became digital by creating a Web portfolio to initiate work for hire or social
identity communications, means that you become part of the group that looks
at Web portfolios as highly important — the global information society. In
which, you will establish an identity and maintain an appearance using a Web
portfolio as you morph into digital existence and prominence in the wired world.
The Web Portfolio
as a Personal Knowledge Portal
The Web portfolio will serve as a personal, narrative knowledge portal for
individuals. It is contextual and humanist, open to interpretation, and vigorously
unyielding to a defined truth that is universally defended. This is not to say that
scientific knowledge may not be part of the Web portfolio content. The Web
portfolio will also serve as a personal portal of scientific knowledge in some
cases. Scientific knowledge being defined by Lyotard as validated and proven,
not open to interpretation.
The e-portfolio fits comfortably in the realm of new media and contributes to
the concept of how the increase of quantifiable information creates a qualitative
change in society and social arrangements — thus supporting the idea that an
information society exists. As the mass media commercial, business card,
promotional brochure, press kit, and identity all rolled into one, the Web
portfolio becomes as a strong media-based informational space for visitors of
all categories. This audience will cause content to be driven in a certain way,
which will cause changes. Some of the changes that will be seen with the mass
